Forgotten Trail
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- $28.99
Publisher Description
In this third installment of Claire Kells’s thrilling National Park mystery series, Investigative Services Branch agent Felicity Harland ventures through volcanic wilderness to investigate a murder at a new hike-in lodge at Pinnacles National Park.
When a guest turns up dead at the newly opened Pinnacles Grand Hotel, ISB agent Felicity Harland finds herself summoned to a peculiar scene. A gentle breeze blows in from the balcony window, belying the violence of a man stabbed to death in his hotel room. It’s clear to Harland that this murder was personal, especially when the victim’s wife admits that she wanted him dead.
But Harland isn’t so sure that this was a domestic dispute gone bad. When she hears about the Park Service searching for a missing person out on the trails, she sets out with her partner, Ferdinand “Hux” Huxley, to see if the two cases are connected.
As Harland and Hux take on the rocky, exposed terrain of California’s ancient volcanic wonderland, they soon realize that the mystery at the Pinnacles Grand is not at all what it seems—and that a predator may be closing in.
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Kells's satisfying third mystery featuring National Park investigator Felicity Harland (following 2022's An Unforgiving Place) kicks off with Felicity and her partner, Hux, trekking into California's Pinnacles National Park to investigate the death of Chris Denton at a luxury hike-in hotel. Denton has been found on the floor of his suite with a shard of glass protruding from his shoulder blades, and local rangers are quick to accept the simplest solution for his demise—after all, his wealthy wife had secretly followed him to the hotel, hoping to catch Denton cavorting with his much younger lover, and she's admitted to toying with the idea of hiring a hit man. But Felicity and Hux, who are privy to reports of a missing person who's recently disappeared from nearby trails, aren't sure the situation is quite so open-and-shut. Meanwhile, Felicity also looks into a 30-year-old cold case that took place in a cave near the hotel. While the pace is leisurely, Kells's fully fleshed out characterizations and beautiful descriptions of the landscape will keep readers hooked. Here's hoping this series has a long run.
